Can't upgrade IE10 to IE11. Can't uninstall IE 10.

> why do you have stars aroun 11?

Your wording implies that torchwood authored/created the command line text pasted into that post

Perhaps a better way to word your question would be:
Why are there stars (asterisks) around 11.?

This method for uninstalling IE has been around for quite a while.
Here is one website that mentions this method:
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ask...rnet-explorer/

But - to answer your question:
Microsoft-Windows-InternetExplorer-*11.*.mum
is the search mask for the FORFILES command.
The asterisks (stars) are wildcards.





> Why is the .mum file is the only one involved?

The search (with its wildcards) will find than one MUM file.

If you use Windows (file) Explorer to search that path (%WINDIR%\servicing\Packages) using the search term of...
Microsoft-Windows-InternetExplorer-
...you should see several MUM and CAT files.
Here are some files found by that search:

Code:

Microsoft-Windows-InternetExplorer-Package-MiniLP~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~en-US~11.2.9600.16428.mum
Microsoft-Windows-InternetExplorer-Package-TopLevel~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~11.2.9600.16428.mum
Microsoft-Windows-InternetExplorer-Optional-Package~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~en-US~11.2.9600.16428.mum

The part in red letters is handled by the wild card asterisks. It allows the command line operation to find (and eventually act on) multiple MUM files without having to know the exact file name for each MUM file of interest. In this case, the operation want to act on MUM files that are associated with IE11.

If you search for...
Microsoft-Windows-InternetExplorer-*11.*.mum
...you might see something like this:



Notice that the CAT files no longer show in the search results.





> are there no other (maybe .exe) files related to the installation of IE?

Parts of IE are built into the operating system. IE11 is an update/upgrade/patch. It is not quite the same as installing/uninstalling an application. MUM files contain info on the installation of Windows patches/updates. In this case, the IE11 update MUM files are used to try and uninstall the IE11 update(s). More about this later.





> is an "Uninstalling package" a proper batch command (googled it , but the results are tad confusing)?

The words "Uninstalling package" are just text to tell the person running the commands that packages are being uninstalled. Notice the echo command just before the words "Uninstalling package".

Open a command prompt window and type...
echo any text
...then press enter.

The result should be that "any text" will be shown in the next line. "Uninstalling package" is nothing special. It is just FYI text. It could have been "Currently acting on this file:" if the author/creator of these commands had opted for that FYI text.





> can you say what this does "@fname && start /w pkgmgr /up:@fname "?

The name of each file found by the FORFILES command is stored in the variable named @fname." The person that put together these commands decided that it would be nice to tell the user the name of each file being acted on.
e.g.
Uninstalling package (name of the first file found)
Uninstalling package (name of the next file found)
Uninstalling package (name of the next file found)
~~~


The first part of these commands...

Code:

FORFILES /P %WINDIR%\servicing\Packages /M Microsoft-Windows-InternetExplorer-*11.*.mum /c “cmd /c echo Uninstalling package @fname

...finds files (and informs the user).

The last part (pkgmgr /up:@fname) does the actual work.

Code:

start /w pkgmgr /up:@fname /norestart”

That tells the package manager app to UP (Uninstall Package) for each file name stored in the @fname variable. I'm guessing that the package manager app also starts/uses the trusted installer app to remove the IE update(s). This might further answer your question, "are there no other (maybe .exe) files related to the installation of IE?".



The "&&" joins the two command lines into one. This lets people copy/paste/run the command lines without having to create/run a batch file.



Caveat to all of the above: I'm not a programmer. The info presented above might be wrong or leave you with the wrong impression.

jojorubi2 said:

Second, Ohhhhh.
So the asterisks are like a quotation and if I wanted to sift through the data and find anything that also has "bear" in it- I'd write *11.**bear* .mum.
but then why isnt .mum in asterisks? and if I wanted to find ".mum" and ".dad" but leave ".cat" and ".dog" alone, should I encase them in said asteriks?

*11.**bear*.mum should be
*11.*bear*.mum

There is no value in putting two asterisks side by side.

The asterisks are not like quotations.

A search term of 11.*bear.mum will match:
11.anythingbear.mum
11.anyonebear.mum
11.anycharacterbear.mum
11.anywordbear.mum
11.anyphrasebear.mum
11.bear.mum

You are telling the search engine that you don't know what character(s) (if any) might be where the asterisk is located.

A search term of *11.*bear.mum will match:
ThingsHere11.anythingbear.mum
ThingsBeforeTheEleven11.anyonebear.mum
211.anycharacterbear.mum
AnyGibberish11.anywordbear.mum
anything11.anyphrasebear.mum
11.bear.mum



> if I wanted to find ".mum" and ".dad" but leave ".cat" and ".dog" alone
Then the search term could be 11.*bear.mum OR 11.*bear.dad
Windows (file) Explorer searches support Boolean Operators.
I'm not sure if that extends to the FORFILES command.

Hi Jojo,
Think i've found the problem.
WU is trying to update your Intel graphics card, and failing, causing a cascade error in the IE11 install, there are some pre-requisites, (graphics card being upto date).

Can you update it from either the comp manufacturers website, or directly from Intel.

Temporarily stop Windows update.

Then see if the standalone IE11 installer works.

Roy

torchwood said:

Hi Jojo,
Think i've found the problem.
WU is trying to update your Intel graphics card, and failing, causing a cascade error in the IE11 install, there are some pre-requisites, (graphics card being upto date).

Can you update it from either the comp manufacturers website, or directly from Intel.

Temporarily stop Windows update.

Then see if the standalone IE11 installer works.

Roy

Where do you see that (the error cascade)?

*sigh*.
ok, i'm not sure if the rest of the process should be in this thread or if it is even possible.
I juxt downloaded the latest driver for my built in graphics card but that didn't help the update. here is the log from just now.


Neither disabling updates ("never check for updates") and instaling ie11 directly.

UsernameIssues said:

jojorubi2 said:

Second, Ohhhhh.
So the asterisks are like a quotation and if I wanted to sift through the data and find anything that also has "bear" in it- I'd write *11.**bear* .mum.
but then why isnt .mum in asterisks? and if I wanted to find ".mum" and ".dad" but leave ".cat" and ".dog" alone, should I encase them in said asteriks?

*11.**bear*.mum should be
*11.*bear*.mum

There is no value in putting two asterisks side by side.

The asterisks are not like quotations.

A search term of 11.*bear.mum will match:
11.anythingbear.mum
11.anyonebear.mum
11.anycharacterbear.mum
11.anywordbear.mum
11.anyphrasebear.mum
11.bear.mum

You are telling the search engine that you don't know what character(s) (if any) might be where the asterisk is located.

A search term of *11.*bear.mum will match:
ThingsHere11.anythingbear.mum
ThingsBeforeTheEleven11.anyonebear.mum
211.anycharacterbear.mum
AnyGibberish11.anywordbear.mum
anything11.anyphrasebear.mum
11.bear.mum



> if I wanted to find ".mum" and ".dad" but leave ".cat" and ".dog" alone
Then the search term could be 11.*bear.mum OR 11.*bear.dad
Windows (file) Explorer searches support Boolean Operators.
I'm not sure if that extends to the FORFILES command.

oh, ok cool.
but did you mean file explorer does not support boolean? (your link says that boolean includes 'and' commands) I just tried *.exe *.txt and it didn't work.

thank you very much.

The thread has gone far down so i'll just up it.

To clarify, my main questions at the moment are: 1) where on the log I can see the error cascade? (couldn't identify by myself).
2) where should I approach next? it seems like updating my intel graphic drivers does not help.

thank you!

Ohhhhh. D'oh.

Of course you are right.

I think at the moment I have no more questions (about that issue).
Man, that knowledge really did help me out this past week. I used to pluck some files I use regularly by hand (too lazy for other means) but now... yeah, found what I want in seconds.


Thank you very much man!

Hi, so this is an update for whomever.
It seems like the problem was resolved (mostly).
I went into Control panel-> device manager, and removed all of the Intel drivers I had.
I then inserted my win7 disc and did installation repair (Repair Install ) which has deleted all of my updates and reverted windows back to its incipient state.

I then chose to update my system and did it by order where the security patches came first, then I updated all of the IE versions, and finally all else.

At the moment IE11 is successfully on.

I now have a new problem where my Intel driver updates and my NET Framework, refuse to go on, but I'll try a similar treatment on them.


Many thanks to all the helpers!